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Word Meanings - TEEMLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. Dryden.

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  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • PROLIFICATION
    Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
  • EARTHBANK
    A bank or mound of earth.
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • BARRENLY
    Unfruitfully; unproductively.
  • EARTHDRAKE
    A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
  • EARTHNUT
    A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
  • EARTHEN
    Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
  • EARTH SHINE
    See EARTH
  • EARTHMAD
    The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
  • BARRENWORT
    An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
  • PROLIFICACY
    Prolificness.
  • EARTHEN-HEARTED
    Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
  • EARTH
    OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jör, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. airpa, OHG. 1. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling
  • EARTHBOARD
    The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
  • EARTHWORK
    Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • UNFRUITFUL
    Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
  • IMPROLIFICATE
    To impregnate. Sir T. Browne.
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • OVERFRUITFUL
    Too fruitful.
  • YEARTH
    The earth. "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.

 

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